The killer instinct & other stories from the Great Depression / Lew Amster. The dark earth & other stories from the Great Depression / Sanora Babb.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Amster, Lew, 1910-

Contributor:

• Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
• Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, former owner.

Series:

• Capra back-to-back series

Standardized Title:

• Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Depressions--1929--Fiction.
• Short stories, American.
• Depressions.
• United States.
• American fiction--20th century.
• American fiction.
• United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
• Manners and customs.
• Depressions--1929--United States--Fiction.

Genre:

• Short stories, American.
• Fiction.
• Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

• Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

115, 78 pages ; 19 cm.

Other Title:

• Killer instinct and other stories from the Great Depression.
• Dark earth & and other stories from the Great Depression.
• Dark earth and other stories from the Great Depression.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara : Capra Press, 1987.

Contents:

• The killer instinct & other stories from the Great Depression: Foreword
• Clever with confectionery
• Center of gravity
• The killer instinct
• Mama Eu Quero. The dark earth & other stories from the Great Depression: Foreword
• The dark earth
• The journey begun
• The refugee
• A good straight game.

Notes:

• No collective t.p. Titles transcribed from the individual title pages.
• Texts bound together back to back and inverted.

Local Notes:

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Contains:

Babb, Sanora. Dark earth & other stories from the Great Depression.

ISBN:

• 088496258X
• 9780884962588

OCLC:

15108034